re: Buffalo mayor signs executive order prohibiting coordination with ICE

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Great album

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Yeah, I thought both DLR and VH both peaked that year.

And it was downhill from there...

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Buffalo mayor signs executive order prohibiting coordination with ICE

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This is just and only a "Look at Me!"

It's the cool thing to do right now, instant name recognition for an ambitious, if retarded, politician.

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And Steve Vai helped put off Dave’s descent

And Gregg bissonaite

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Absolutely.

To be fair, though, nobody in that genre made it through grunge (I mean, they still existed, but they went into the 90s playing stadiums and by the latter half of the decade they were playing clubs).

So no matter what, both band's days were numbered at that point.

VH held on longer, staying relevant up until Right Now in 1991 and having a stronger 2nd post-DLR release, but neither so much as sniffed the artistic and commercial success of 1986 again. Lots of people thought that 1984 was VHs best record (and it was awful good), but I always thought it was 5150 by a nose.

Diamond Dave was an enigma in that he was both VHs and his own best asset and also worst enemy. He managed to be both the (2nd) best thing about VH (the best being obvious) and also the worst thing about it.

Poor singer. But one of the best screechers to ever strap on a pair of buttless leather chaps (another being Blackie Lawless).

He was a great showman in an era in which you had to reach out and touch the back of the arena with pure charisma, because there were no 50 foot screens and 12 cameras to project you back there with technology. But he was a constant poison to the culture of the band with his ADD energy going in all directions.

His obsession with vaudeville and 1930s and 40s musical nonsense gave us the gloriously foolish Hot for Teacher, which served as perhaps the band's best platform ever for Eddie Van Halen to showcase his musical sense of humor, but it also gave us Big Bad Bill and Happy Trails covers, which were excruciatingly lame for a band like VH.

There is a fine line between awesome and awful when it comes to art. DLR was completely unafraid to flirt with line, or even to cross it. No fear. Every now and then that impulse resulted in gems of triumph. More often, it resulted in lame concepts like almost half of Diver Down consisting of cover songs.

Listen to the intro to Mean Streets—one of the most spectacular moments in rock guitar history—and Unchained on Fair Warning, and then imagine EVH playing to Dancin' In The Streets and covering Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on the next album. That was DLR's influence. But then you have Top Jimmy, Hot for Teacher, and Drop Dead Legs. That was ALSO DLR's influence.

He needed a handler to tell him when he was on the right side of that genius line and when he had stepped over it, but we all know he wouldn't have listened anyway.

'Cause that's what made him unafraid of it in the first place. :)

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Local cops are not obliged to help ICE. They can't prohibit or obstruct ICE but they don't need to help in ICE related activities....since immigration activities are solely the province of the Federal Government like the Supreme Court said.

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These are the 2 choices:

Assist to make everything smooth and safe.
Insurrect to make liberal retards put their lives on the line.